PREFACE.
'Up the Country' became so popular a book, that the authoress was repeatedly urged to publish more of her Letters from India.
Unfortunately, her health was for many years before her death, in so precarious a state that she was quite unequal to the task of preparing these Letters for the press.
I had indeed begun to arrange them during her life-time and under her directions, but from various circumstances was unable to accomplish this.
My Aunt frequently, however, expressed her desire that I should continue the work at some future period.
It is therefore, with the feeling that I am simply carrying out her intentions, that I offer